Linda Fairstein
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Audio Tape ISIS (2003) |
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The Bone Vault
The glitzy reception at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art should have been a welcome evening off for Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper. But the event is overshadowed by a gruesome discovery: in an ancient sarcophagus, bound for a show abroad, customs officials have found the body of a young woman.
Katrina Grooten was a quiet, studious intern at the Cloisters, home of the Met’s mediaeval art collection. According to museum records, Katrina left her job several months earlier to return to her native South Africa. The discovery of her preserved body shows that she never made it home.
As Alex and NYPD Detective Mike Chapman investigate, they encounter an establishment whose culture is as curious as the exhibits they display.
`Linda Fairstein’s continued rise into the rarified realm of great crime fiction seems unstoppable. She is beginning to defy gravity. The Bone Vault will spin your head and race you away on a blast of originality, chilling real-world detail and turbo-charged writing. If being a nationally acclaimed prosecutor wasn’t enough, Fairstein has become one of America’s most promising and exciting crime novelists’ Patricia Cornwell
A tour de force. Shivers not only the bones but the marrow’ Frances Fyfield
`The Bone Vault is nothing short of brilliant’ Nelson Demille
Liza Ross has worked extensively in theatre, television and radio. She has twice appeared with the National Theatre Company in The Front Page and Wings. Other theatre credits include The Entertainer, Arms and the Man and Dangerous Corner. Her TV appearances include After the War, Poor Little Rich Girl, The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt, Chandler's Smart-Alex Kill andOppenheimer.
She also works frequently in radio, working in plays including The Age of Innocence and Superman.
Her many film credits include Batman. She is frequently heard on BBC Radio and has read many audio books.
Unabridged:
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 12 hrs 25 mins
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Audio Tape - ISIS (2002) |
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The Deadhouse
University professor Lola Dakota has suffered at the hands of her abusive husband too long and when the police get wind of his plan to hire a hitman to kill her, she agrees to fake her own murder. The sting seems successful and her husband is arrested. However, a couple of hours later, Lola is dead again, this time for good.
Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper is brought in to help NYPD detectives find the killer. They are led into the academic world at King’s College and find it riddled with petty jealousies, love affairs and swindled funds. Alex uncovers tales of missing students, drug dealers and something referred to as the Deadhouse, which take her to an island just off Manhattan where Lola’s department was researching the remains of a Victorian penitentiary, hospitals and lunatic asylums . . .
'Darkly woven with a shocking history of New York asylums, penitentiaries and plagues, The Deadhouse conjures up a horrid past to solve a baffling murder mystery' Patricia Cornwell
Originally from Massachusetts, Laurence Bouvard trained at LAMDA and made her professional debut creating the role of Maria Elena Holly in the original cast of the West End musical, Buddy. Her other theatre credits include leading roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, Wuthering Heights, Speed-the-Plow, and Persephone in Stravinsky’s Persephone at the BBC Proms. Her appearances on TV include EastEnders and The Tomorrow People.
Unabridged:
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs 10 mins
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Audio Tape ISIS (2000) |
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Cold Hit
A chilling new thriller from the acclaimed Manhattan Assistant D.A. who lives the gritty and glamorous life that she writes about.
Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper is called to a crime scene - a young woman pulled from the water, tied to a ladder. But who is she? Her elegant clothes and manicured nails suggest affluent connections, but just how well-connected surprises even Alex.
From a luxurious Fifth Avenue apartment, to famous mid-town auction houses, Alex hunts for a killer in a very special world where priceless art meets big money in a lethal mix.
'Absorbing, intricately woven - bring on the next' Patricia Cornwell
Liza Ross has worked extensively in theatre, television and radio. She has twice appeared with the National Theatre Company in The Front Page and Wings. Other theatre credits include The Entertainer, Arms and the Man and Dangerous Corner. Her TV appearances include After the War, Poor Little Rich Girl, The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt, Chandler's Smart-Alex Kill andOppenheimer.
She also works frequently in radio, working in plays including The Age of Innocence and Superman.
Her many film credits include Batman. She is frequently heard on BBC Radio and has read many audio books.
Unabridged:
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 25 mins
About The Author
Linda Fairstein is is an Assistant District
Attorney and head of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit. Her involvement with such cases as the Preppy Murder and the Central Park Jogger over the past two decades has gained her the reputation of one of the city's toughest prosecutors. She lives in Manhattan with husband.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
The Bone Vault
(ISIS,
2003)
The Deadhouse
(ISIS,
2002)
Cold Hit
(ISIS,
2000)
The Bone Vault
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